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When the family relocated to New York, Bosworth first attended the Chapin School and then the Ecole International in Geneva, Switzerland.

At age 13, intending to become an actress, she adopted her mother's maiden name as her surname. In California, Bosworth had been educated at Miss Burke's School and the Convent of the Sacred Heart. His career suffered during the fallout from the Blacklist, and the family moved from California to New York in late 1948. The elder Crum gained notoriety for being one of the six lawyers who defended the Hollywood Ten during the Red Scare at the start of the Cold War in 1947. presidential election campaign, and served on the 1945 Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry into Palestine that advised President Harry Truman to support the creation of a Jewish state. Their father was active in politics as a confidant to Wendell Willkie during the 1940 U.S. She grew up especially close to her younger brother, Bartley Crum Jr. Her lucid, low-key prose is nothing like Mary Karr’s salty Texas snap, but The Men in My Life shares with The Liars’ Club the distinction of describing a turbulent coming-of-age with the nuance and acuity that real lives deserve.Born Patricia Crum in Oakland, California, Bosworth was the daughter of prominent attorney Bartley Crum and novelist Anna Gertrude Bosworth. Self-pity is all too common in memoirs of family dysfunction, but Bosworth eschews it in favor of self-knowledge.

Despite the big-name cameos, this is an unsentimental account of life as a journeyman actor. Bosworth provides colorful snapshots of the Studio’s starry membership in its heyday, from Ben Gazzara and Elaine Stritch (at the time a boozy couple) to Steve McQueen (on a motorcycle, naturally) and Arthur Penn (acidly depicted as a sadistic bully). In her graceful biographies, Patricia Bosworth has written with sensitive restraint about artists whose self-destructive lives often attract lurid coverage, including Montgomery Clift and Diane Arbus.So it’s a pleasure but not entirely a surprise to report that in her new memoir Bosworth writes about her own life with the same nonjudgmental candor.